The Russo's and Harper arrived at their loft after a week of being in California. Alex wanted to stay but she wanted to run it by her parents first. They were walking in with their baggage and set in it on the floor by the door.
Their parents entered the living room and they were angry, which would not go well for Alex. "What's the matter?" Justin asked.
"I don't know, you tell me." Jerry replied.
Oh no. Alex thought. How did he find out? Her heart started to beat faster knowing that this was not going to end well for her. "I don't know." Justin responded. Of course he didn't know.
"You don't know." The dad's eyes shifted to Alex. She knew then that she was busted. "Care to explain." Busted. She had no other choice than to tell the truth to her father. She didn't think it was going to be this soon into her new life.
"You wouldn't understand." Alex replied. No one in the room did, well they did but it was in the other reality. Here, no one could relate to what Alex had gone through in the old reality, nor did she want to remember because it was no longer important.
"Then explain to me." Her dad was persistent, he wanted an answer.
"Okay, but can it be just you and me in the lair, please?" Alex begged. She didn't want to open up to a room full of people, even if they are her family.
Her dad nodded and walked off. Alex followed him down the stairs to the lair. Once the door was closed he began to speak again. "Explain to me why you time traveled."
"Um, because the other reality was horrible." That was her way to shorten her long reason.
"What made it so horrible?"
"Max didn't exist. He died in my arms after a robbery." More was coming out from her mouth.
"The one from last year?" Alex nodded and continued with her story.
"Yeah, he was supposed to die, he was supposed to get shot. I didn't want that to happen. It messed me up, it messed all of us up. The substation got shut down and the only reason we came down here was because I had relapse of what happened. Justin was so angry with me. I couldn't take it anymore." Tears were running down her face and she was wiping them as they came down but it was no use since the tears just kept on coming.
"And there was this girl that I had also met. From the first second from just looking at her you knew that she went through something to be where she was. She had shut everyone out from the minute she entered the classroom. I actually got through to her. I got to actually know what was wrong with her. I picked up a picture that she had dropped. It was her and her sister, twin sister. We connected over a loss in each other's family and her loss was her twin sister."
Her father did not speak for about a couple of minutes. He was processing every word that his daughter has spoken. "You did this to save them?" He was surprised. It was a rare occasion when Alex did something selfless.
"Yeah."
"Where are these twins now?"
"In California, it's Sonny and Mitchie Munroe."
"Who?" Her father didn't watch the shows his children watched, so of course he didn't know who Alex was talking about.
"Sonny is the girl from So Random, and her sister is a famous singer."
"Oh, I guess it was fate that got you back to her." Jerry was a strong believer in fate. Although he never time traveled in his life, he knew if he met someone in one reality that was important to him and made a quite significance in his life, that he would meet them in another reality.
"I guess, but I didn't remember anything of the other reality until I came into contact with Mitchie."
"How so?"
Alex shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, I think it was because she was the only person that I came into physical contact with during the time travel."
"That does make sense, does she remember you?"
"Of course, Harper and I convinced her to not kill herself."
"Wait, Harper went with you?"
Alex nodded her head, "I didn't know what I would say to her. Harper came because I asked her to, to help me out. I couldn't do it on my own."
"Another question, how were you able to acquire the spell?"
"Well, Justin thought it was going to be at the restricted library but I found it in Professor Crumb's office."
"Justin was a part of this too?"
"Yeah, but him and Harper don't remember a thing."
After hearing everything that his daughter has told him, it was going to be hard what he had to do next. "Alex, before you came home, I was visited by the wizard police. They want to reverse this."
"No, that can't happen!"
"Alex-"
"No, I worked hard on this. I can't have Max not existing in my life. I may torture him but I want him alive and well."
"I want him alive too, but rules are rules."
"Screw the rules, I can't handle being that person with a guilty conscience, I can't have Justin mad at me again, and I hate feeling like a mental patient every time I have a relapse."
"Relapse?"
"I had them at least once a week since Max's death." Alex answered. "His death was replaying in my mind but I playing it out in reality. I don't want to be that person." Alex was crying, she didn't want this to end as fast it began.
Jerry went over and tightly hugged his daughter. He hated seeing her like this. Maybe he can do something about it. He pulled away but only slightly. "I'll try to fix this. I'll do whatever it takes." He let go of her and walked to the portal door. He opened the door and turned to look back at her. "I'm going to try to reason with the police and the counsel." He stepped through the portal and he was gone.
Alex walked back upstairs to find that everybody was going through their life like nothing just happen between her and her father. All she wanted to do when she came home was to ask if she could stay in California as Sonny's bodyguard and hoped that her parents said yes.
Now her father is now going up against the wizards counsel for her. Who knows how's that going to turn out. She was going to try to stay optimistic about the situation. That was going to be a hard task for her.
"So Alex, what did Dad want to talk to you about?" Justin asked.
"Oh, you know me, some spell that I cast has gone awry." Alex lied. But he would believe her anyways because most of the time her spells had gone awry.
"Oh okay, I'm sure he showed you how to fix it."
"He did."
She took a seat next to Justin on the couch and she was going to wait for the time to come for her to found out the counsel's verdict.
